Horseshoe.



J. PARK.

HORSESHOB.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 24,1904. RENEWED Mn. 21, 1907.

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PATBNTED JULY 30, 1907 JOHN PARK, OF KAMLOOPS, BRITISH COLUMBIA,

PATENT OFFICE.

CANADA.

HORSE SHOE To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN PARK, of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horseshoes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates particularly to the type of horse shoes which are fastened in place without the necessity of driving nails into the hoofs.

The invention may be said briefly, to consist of a horse shoe and means for fastening the same in place comprising 2. rolled steel plate blank of horse-shoe form and having a series of hooks punched out of each side of the outer edge or periphery thereof and bent to extend upwardly with their points extending downwardly in vertical direction, while the portions of the said edge or periphery between the said two series of hooks and between the hooks of each series are bent downwardly to form a continuous segmental rim constituting when the shoe is in place, a prolongation of the horny rim of the hoof.

Horse-shoes made as above are for use by all horses except those intended to be ridden. In the latter case I make the shoes as above but shorter and to constitute only a toe piece.

For full comprehension, however, of my invention reference must be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification in which similar reference characters indicate the same parts and wherein Figure 1 is a front view of a horses hoof having my improved shoe fastened thereto; Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof; Fig. 3 a plan view of the underside of a shoe; Fig. 4 is a plan view of a blank before the hooks and rim are bent at right angles thereto; and Fig. 5 is a plan view of the top of a shortened horse shoe or toe piece made according to my invention. Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of the key employed in securing my improved shoe in position.

The blank indicated in Fig. 4 is punched or stamped out of a rolled steel plate, a series of pairs of hooks b, b, c, c, and d, d, being formed simultaneously, and by a subsequent operation they are bent to extend at right angles to the body of the shoe and the edge of the blank is formed with cuts 6 extending inwardly from each side of the base of each hook, the portion of the edge of the blank thus cut through being bent to extend at right angles to the side of the blank opposite to that from which the hooks extend thereby forming a rim. The segmental part f of this rim between the front pairs of hooks constitutes an extension of the horny rim of the hoof, the parts 9, g, from the pairs of hooks to the rear ends of the shoe constituting an extension of the heel portions of the hodf, and the parts h, h, between the hooks of each series constituting calks.

The points of each pair of hooks are formed upon the sides of the hooks towards the toe of the shoe, thus caus- Specifieation of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 24, 1904, Serial No. 209,600. Renewed January 21, 1907.

Patented July 30, 1907.

Serial No. 353,353.

ing the series of hooks at one side of the shoe to have their points facing the points of the series on the other side. The hooks are each formed with a sharp point is which is bent to extend downwardly in a vertical line towards a point a short distance inwardly from the periphery of the shoe. I provide a key or having a pair of grooves n in the form of a cross, in one end, either leg of which is adapted to be fitted on the upper end of each hook.

In order to fasten the shoe to the hoof it is placed thereon and the key fitted upon one of the hooks, and by a few strokes of a hammer upon the upper end of the key the point of such hook will be driven downwardly in vertical direction into the strong horny rim of the hoof and away from the soft and tender part thereof. Each hook will be in turn acted upon in a like manner. When the hooks are struck they are compressed or, in other words, collapse thus allowing the point to enter downwardly into the hoof.

What I claim is as follows l. A horse-shoe having two series of upwardly projecting devices compressible in the direction of their length, each device having a point projecting downwardly in vertical line with a point a short distance inwardly from the periphery of the horse-shoe, and the devices of each series having their points upon the sides thereof facing the other series.

2. A horse-shoe having a series of upwardly projecting hooks compressible in the direction of their length, each having its point projecting downwardly in vertical line with a point a short distance inwardly from the periphery of the horseshoe, and each point being upon the side of the hook towards the toe of the shoe.

3. A horse-shoe having a rim extending downwardly from the periphery thereof, and a series of hooks extending upwardly from the periphery of the shoe and having their points extending downwardly in vertical direction towards a point inwardly from the periphery, such hooks being compressible in the direction of their length, substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.

4. A sheet-metal horse-shoe having a rim extending downwardly from the periphery thereof, and a series of hooks extending upwardly from the periphery of the shoe and having their points extending downwardly in vertical direction towards a point inwardly from the periphery, such hooks being compressible in the direction of their length, substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.

5. A sheet-metal horse-shoe having a series of pairs of vertically extending hooks projecting upwardly from opposite sides of the top of the horse-shoe and inclined inwardly over the body thereof with their points projecting downwardly in a vertical line, and a peripheral rim extending downwardly from the portions of the said horseshoe between the front pair of hooks, between the hooks of each series, and between the hooks and the heel of the shoe, substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.

6. A horse-shoe consisting of a blank punched or stamped out of a rolled steel plate and formed with a series of pairs of hooks, and the edge of the blank having a series of cuts extending inwardly from the sides of the bases of the hooks, the hooks being bent upwardly and inwardly relatively to the periphery of the shoe and having sharp downwardly projecting points extending in a vertical line a point u on one side thereof, and such device and the 10 towards the body of the shoe inwardly from the periphery point thereon lying in a plane substantially in line with thereof, the portion of the edge having the cuts therein bet the periphery of the shoe.

ing bent to extend at right angles to the side of the blank In testimony whereof, I have afiixed my signature, in opposite to that from which the hooks extend thereby presence of two witnesses. forming a rim, substantially as described and for the pur- .TOI-IN PARK. pose set forth. Witnesses:

7, The combination with a horse shoe, of a compressible WILLIAM RUPERT BOURKE,

device for connecting the same to a hoof, such device having HERBERT JAMES McC/tm. 

